To the east of Yizhou is Yiwu Lu Mountain, and after Yiwu Lu Mountain is the endless Liaohe River Plain!

Now is the time of harvest, between Yiwulu Mountain and the Liao River, you can see a golden sea of wheat everywhere. The harvest had already begun, but because a large number of young and middle-aged people had been conscripted into the army to fight for the Qing Dynasty, the harvest was not fast, and only a small part of the wheat in the wheat field had been cut.

However, near the original Quang Ninh Acropolis, there was a large field of wheat that had been harvested almost completely. This large wheat field may be more than 100,000 acres or 200,000 acres, all built around a large farm. This farm occupies a fortress of the original Ming Dynasty as a foundation, and after a large expansion and transformation, it has become a fortress-like farm, the walls of the village are high and thick, and two circles of trenches have been dug outside. At first glance, it's really solid!

Living in this golden fortress is a large group of Shanxi people who moved from Xuanfu, most of them are surnamed Fan, and the owner of the village is also surnamed Fan, named Fan Yongdou!

That's right, it's Fan Yongdou, the head of the Nine Great Emperor Merchants.

The envoy to Tianzhu almost killed him, but after returning to Beijing to recuperate for a while, his body recovered. However, his family's business plummeted during his time of mission and recuperation, and he could no longer support the façade of the number one imperial merchant.

In fact, the declining imperial merchants are not only the Fan family, and the so-called imperial merchants are linked to the royal family. The royal family is doing well, and the imperial merchants may not be good, but the good ones may be greater. And the royal family is going to be bad, and it is really a miracle that these imperial businessmen can be good again. Among the nine imperial merchants, the only one who created a miracle was Jia Le City in Jabbs...... And the rest of the eight imperial merchants have become the plate of Shunzhi, Jierharang, Chang Adai and Duoduo father and son.

Otherwise, how could Shunzhi lose the country and still have endless money?

Because Fan Yongdou was the head of the imperial merchants, and he was still the "royal merchant" of Dolgon's white flag, he was not completely eaten and wiped clean, and he was left with some dignity - the worst thing was Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu, who served the two yellow flags, because the two yellow flags were very downtrodden in the years when Dolgon was the emperor Amma, so their imperial merchants did not have much oil and water.

And after Shunzhi took power, he kept working hard, and if he had no money, he asked Sony to force the two imperial merchants to reimburse, which made the two imperial merchants in debt, and in the end, in order to raise money after seclusion, Shunzhi ordered Suke Saha to arrest Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu, torture them, forced out their last bit of family money, and then exterminated them. After that, the two imperial merchants of Wang and Jin went bankrupt, owed huge debts (most of them owed to the two Yellow Banner magnates) and could not be repaid, and they were also confiscated, and the family was sold into slavery to pay off the debts......

Compared with Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu, the fate of Fan Yongdou's family is much better, Dolgon's fat pig can't be slaughtered by Shunzhi, and Azig and Duoduo are not very easy to knife, after all, there is still a Dolbo!

However, Fan Yongdou's business still couldn't go on, and he was collapsed by the joint efforts of Jia Le City and the Ming Navy!

In the past few years after Dolgon's death, there was no problem in selling ginseng, leather goods, and Dongzhu from outside the customs to Daming through Jiale City - even if there was a war between the two sides, the merchant ships of Jiale City could smuggle through the layers of blockade of the Ming Navy. However, no matter where the merchant ships of the Fan family went to sea, they were allowed to be robbed by the Ming Navy with people and ships.

After more than ten smuggling of people and ships, Fan Yongdou was also discouraged and handed Duoduo a fold, asking to abandon commercial farming.

Duoduo spoke better than Shunzhi, and did not wipe out the Fan family, and also allocated 130,000 mu of land near the Acropolis of Guangning to the Fan family to operate - of course, the ownership of the land is Duoduo's, but it is only for the Fan family to operate, and the Fan family needs to give Duoduo land rent, and they have to pay 50,000 stone of flour every year.

Because of the land planted by Doni (of course it was Doni when Duoduo died), the farmers of Fanjiazhuang were not on the conscription book. With enough labor, coupled with the good management of Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba, the 130,000 mu wheat field has now been harvested, and the entire 400,000 stone wheat has been transported into Fanjiazhuang, not only filling all the granaries, but also piling up grain hoards one after another in the courtyard of the Fan family's mansion.

Sitting under the eaves of his house, looking at one grain hoard after another, Fan Yongdou's old face also showed a long-lost smile.

The black soil on the banks of the Liao River is too fertile...... The 400,000 stones here are already the amount after deducting the wages of the coated minions.

400,000 stone wheat milled into flour, how can there be 2780,000 stone...... Give Doni 80,000 stones, and then take out 50,000 stones to make some points, and the Fan family can still get 150,000 stones!

The old man had already settled the accounts, and said to his son who was waiting on the side with a smile: "Sanba, we haven't worked in vain this year!" Fortunately, I didn't listen to you, and the whole family moved to the edge of Xingkai Lake to open up wasteland. ”

Fan San, who is in his twenties this year, looks shrewd and capable, but his eyebrows are twisted: "Daddy, when the wheat here is ground into flour, we can always move east, right?" The land here is fertile, but it's ......."

As soon as he was halfway through his words, Fan Fu, the housekeeper of the Fan family, suddenly slammed open the gate of the courtyard, rushed in, and stumbled to Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba, startling the two fathers and sons who were thinking about moving to Xingkai Lake.

Fan Fuke is a steady and solid character, and he is old, when he and Fan Yongdou collected the intelligence of Datong and Xuanfu Ming Army to the Qing Kingdom, how many thrills he encountered, and he didn't see him like this!

"Fu Bo, what are you ......?" asked Fan Sanba.

"Young Master, Master Wang is here!" Fan Fu trembled and said, "Master Wang has already come......

"Master Wang? What is the king? "A little old and confused, Fan Yongdou didn't react for a while.

"Ming Army! The Ming army is coming! Fan Sanba screamed in horror.

"Ming Army?" Fan Yongdou has seen a big scene, or his face has not changed, "Where is it?" ”

"It's already outside the Zhuangzi......"

"How many are there?" Fan Yongdou asked.

"I don't know," said Fan Fu, "the cavalry of the brigade, looking along the official road, can't see the tail of the team at all!" ”

"Cavalry ......" Fan Yongdou still forced his composure, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid...... Zhuangzi is strong and not afraid. ”

"Boom, boom, boom......"

As soon as Fan Yongdou's words were finished, the "thunder" came!

Old man Fan hurriedly looked up at the sky, of course the sky was blue......

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Three more roars!

This is the king master firing a cannon!

Fan Yongdou had a feeling that the end was coming. Although his Fanjiazhuang has a ditch outside and a high wall inside, the trench can't stop the elite soldiers, and the high wall can't carry the cannon!

Fan Yongdou gritted his teeth, "Hurry up, let people prepare food and drink, and prepare a few generous gifts, let's go to welcome the king!" ”

At this time, Fan Yongdou was still lucky, Wang Shi was passing by, and it was impossible for Wang Shi to know that Jiexiu Fan Yongdou lived here in Guangningwei, so he could still pass the test in confusion.

As long as you can get past it, run away...... Even if you go to Tianzhu Country and go to Risi Bania Country, it is better than staying in Liaodong!

It's a pity that Fan Yongdou's luck didn't last long. Because when he and Fan Sanba came to welcome Wang Shi with the common people on Zhuangzi to eat pot pulp, a senior official of Wang Shi with a Tianjin accent came up and asked: "Who is Fan Yongdou and who is Fan Sanba?" ”

"General, general," Fan Yongdou's butler Fan Fu said stiffly, "There is no Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba here......

"No?" It was Tian Yiqing who asked, of course he knew that Fan Fu was lying, so he raised his voice and said, "You customers of the Fan family are all obedient, and Jin Yiwei has already found out that this is the residence of Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba, two traitors, so the Son of Heaven ordered the official to arrest him...... If you don't hand over Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba, then the official will arrest all of you and exile them all to the Gulf of America, which is tens of thousands of miles away! ”

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